McSweeney's Books, the imprint of Dave Eggers's ten-year-old literary magazine McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, recently signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Books in London, the Bookseller reported yesterday. Under the new deal, which was brokered by agents Scott Moyers in New York City and Sarah Chalfont in London, Atlantic Books will distribute six McSweeney's titles per year in the U.K. and the Commonwealth. The first title is Lemony Snicket's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story.
"We have admired McSweeney's publishing from afar since they began, and everyone here is thrilled that we will now be representing their strange, beautiful fruit," Atlantic CEO Toby Mundy was quoted as saying.
Since it was launched in 2000, McSweeney's Books has published titles by such popular fiction writers as Lydia Davis, Stephen Dixon, Jonathan Lethem, and Eggers himself. Its first foray into contemporary poetry was The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets (2007), edited by Dominic Luxford.
